Several empirical studies across developing countries document a positive correlation between participation in rural nonfarm employment and households' wealth or income status. However, the direction of causality is far from obvious. This paper explores whether nonfarm employment leads to higher...

This study investigates the covid risk perceptions, information updating behavior related to the pandemic, use of protective measures, especially facemasks, and the demand for vaccines among university students in Malawi. In particular, the study focuses on how religion and belief in prayer as a...

While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed and indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This paper utilizes a natural experiment with covariate (drought) and...